A FIVE-TON TRUC
CARLYSLE FRG
T
he mission Land Rover careened
across the road and flipped three
times. Carlysle Walton lost conscious-
ness with the first roll. When he awoke
he knew at once that his legs were
badly hurt.
"Dear God, I need your help," he
prayed. Lie still and conserve your
energy, came the unspoken reply.
Trusting that help would come soon,
he closed his eyes and waited.
"This one is dead too," a voice
boomed from the blackness. Quickly
Carlysle forced his eyes open.
"I'm all right," he murmured and
noticed how labored his breathing had
become. He wanted to ask who had
died but could not form the words.
Soon Bryan Stephens, the driver of the
ill-fated vehicle, bent over the 20-year-
old lad.
"Carlysle, Philip is dead," he choked.
The evening of June 20, 1982, had
begun with special promise. Philip, a
Guyana-born East Indian and a close
friend of Carlysle had opened a new
evangelistic campaign in the predom-
inantly Hindu community of Enter-
prise, Guyana. Instead of the expected
attendance of one hundred, more than
six hundred people came out.
"The Lord has many honest sot
Enterprise," Philip exulted on the
home. And Carlysle thanked Go
blessing his friend's faithful effo.
But just then a speeding trucl
loomed out of the blackness. TI
driver of the Land Rover slowed a
to a stop, as far off the road as
possible without rolling into the
that paralleled the roadway. But
rear of the truck had slammed it a
the road out of control.
"Why this, Lord; just when PI
was making a breakthrough wit
Hindus?" Carlysle wrestled with
question many times, determini
with God's help not to let this acc
hinder his own usefulness.
When Carlysle's injuries failet
respond to the available medici
the mission hospital, he flew to
his parents in the United States. B
soon as his fever was brought u
control and healing began, he ret
to Guyana and his duties as assi
treasurer of the conference and
spiritual leader to a congregatic
150 that he had helped raise.
Carlysle is now 23 and comp
the last year of his college edut
at Columbia Union College. Pec
EVEN A FIVE-TON TRUCK COULDI.
FROM HIS MISSION; WHAT POSSII